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JAMES CLARK VEAVER, OF CUTLER, INDIANA, ASSIGNCR TO I-IIMSELF AND JOHN FELTHOFF, OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 284,103, dated August 28, 1883,'

Application led May 29, 1883. (No model.) i i To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, J nMns CLARK Wniivnn, of Cutler, in the county of Carroll and State of Indiana, have invented a new and Improved Stock-Car, oi' which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention consists of improvements in the construction of stock-cars and contrivances for feeding and watering the stock, and alsov for `partitioning the car, whereby it will `be more substantial, the stock may be fed and watered without the Atrouble and delay of removing them from the car, and they may bel separated at any desired place along the car, all as hereinafter fully described.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate 4correspoinling parts in all the figures.

these parts/the said stays and braces forming substantial trusses, which greatly increase the rigidity of the side frames ofthe body, on which most of the stress of the load falls.

To water the stock and feed with grain, I arrange the troughs f in the side frames of the car just above the stays a, and extending from the door to the ends, or from post to,

post, in ease intermediate posts are employed, fixing said troughs in openings in the sides of the car-body on pivots g, so that they may swing down into the position (represented at the left-hand side of Fig. 3) for watering and feeding, with about one-third of the breadth of the trough projecting outside of the carbody to facilitate the supplying of the feed and water thereto, and about two-thirds projecting inward for `access of the stock to eat and drink, and when not required for use they may swing upinto the position represented at the right hand of Fig. 8, to occupy less room inside ofthe ear, and so as not to project outside. WVhen let down in the position Y j and a pin, k.

To feed with hay I make spring-racks consisting of springsupports Z, attached to the floor of the car, and bars m, the springs supporting the bars m along the sides of the carbody within the car and below the troughs, to which the hay is to be supplied through the spaces a, between the slats of the sides, the racks being arranged to stand close up to the sides of the ear-body when empty, but so that they will give back when the proper supply of hay is crowded in, both for keeping the hay so as not to be pulled away and wasted bythe stock, and for closing up out of the way ofthe stock when the hay is exhausted.

For partitioning the ear to separate the stock anywhere along the car that it may be desired, I have a rack or frame, o, of any approved construction, suspended by pivots p from pivot-bearng plates q, fastened to the beam `s by bolts t, that may be taken out of the beam and shifted along to other holes, which may be provided anywhere along the beams, as may be required'. rllhe lower end of the partition o will be fastened by hooks and staples u, and when it is not required to use the partition it is to be swung up under the top ofthe car and fastened by va spring or other hook, w, as indicated by the dotted lines in the upper part of Fig. l.

Having thus described myinvention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. The spring-racks Z m, located within the car and along the sides to receive the hay stuffed in through the openings of the sides, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with a stock-car, of a partition, o, suspended on pivots p, having pivot-bearings q, adjustable along the beams of thecar, substantially as described.

J AMES CLARK VEAVER.

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